By Later this Summer comes a new version of “The Crow,” another adaptation of James O’Barr’s supernatural comic that has seen several film adaptations before – most notably the 1994 cult classic from director Alex Proyas.
That film, which starred the late Brandon Lee, was followed by three sequels between 1996-2005. For years came failed attempts to reboot the franchise until finally, almost sixteen years after it was first announced, the movie has finally been made and will hit cinemas next month.
Despite the long road to get there, the film’s director Rupert Sanders wants to make it clear that this is no major Hollywood studio remake.
Speaking with Empire, he says: “There’s nothing to do with Hollywood in this movie at all, it’s a very scrappy indie movie. The only reason we could do that is because it’s not a studio movie.”
In fact, the filmmaker says avoiding the standard conventions of studio blockbusters is what has allowed him to avoid the various issues that come with such adaptations and be “able to remain close to the centre and the darkness and the violence that’s in the graphic novel”.
Coming in at a budget of $50 million, Sanders says the budgetary restraint worked to the production’s advantage: “You have to be more adept at making things more efficiently, that are emotionally resonant, and not just spectacle.”
Should it succeed, he hopes it inspires the next wave of cost-efficient, risk-taking fare: “I really hope we’re in for another kind of Easy Riders, Raging Bulls period of having to make these more down-and-dirty films that still feel like big epic movies [but] are weirder and stranger.”
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